al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 6285
✧ Abdullah, son of Abbas, son of Abdul-Muttalib.
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَفَّانَ ثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ ثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ
«كَانَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ يُسَمَّى الْبَحْرَ مِنْ كَثْرَةِ عِلْمِهِ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
- al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. ʿAffān
- Abū Usāmah
- al-Aʿmash
- Mujāhid
✧ "Ibn Abbas was called al-Bahr (the Sea) because of the abundance of his knowledge."
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Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةفي حكم العنعنة
- Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AHمُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلمعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt); he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), and toward the end of his life he used to narrate from the books of others.d. 200 AH, or 201 AHأَبُو أُسَامَةَثقة ثبت ، ربما دلس ، وكان بآخره يحدث من كتب غيره.حدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 270 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَفَّانَصدوقحدثنا
- d. 346 AHأَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَحدثنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.